NAME

     atol - convert a string to a long integer.

SYNOPSIS

     #include <stdlib.h>

     long atol(const char *nptr));

DESCRIPTION

     The atol() function converts  the  initial  portion  of  the
     string  pointed  to  by  nptr to long.  The behaviour is the
     same as

          strtol(nptr, (char **)NULL, 10);

     except that atol() does not detect errors.

RETURN VALUE

     The converted value.

CONFORMING TO

     SVID 3, POSIX, BSD 4.3, ISO 9899

SEE ALSO

     atof(3), atoi(3), strtod(3),